Scoopt has sold its first photo to the press—admitadly for only “two figures”, but it’s a start. Stephen Bell (who writes about the experience here) took a photo of the aftermath of a car crash, which happened when the driver—who was being chased by police—leapt out of the still moving car to escape. He did escape, which is impressive. Scoopt—which is an agency for citizen journalists—is claiming some 2,000 members from 64 countries so far, which is almost double what it had a month ago. There are some people who think this will be successful because of the number of people with digital cameras these days, and there are others who think the quality of the photos will be so poor and the banality of the “news” events so great that the agency will quickly sink. I’m going to have to sit on the fence on this one, I think it’s about 50:50 and depends on a number of factors, including the skill of the agent. (via Techdirt)
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